Curated By: Aakash Biswas
Final Up to date: December 23, 2023, 10:45 IST
Sarfaraz Khan smashes a 61-ball hundred in intra-squad recreation in South Africa
Sarfaraz Khan launched an outright assault towards the likes of Harshit Rana, Saurabh Kumar and veteran all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja to notch triple figures of simply 63 deliveries.
Home star Sarfaraz Khan got here up with a superb knock within the intra-squad in Pretoria on Friday. The Indian Take a look at squad is gearing up for the 2-match collection towards South Africa, beginning December 26 in Centurion. As part of their preparations, the gamers had been divided into two completely different groups – India and India A – and engaged in an intra-squad follow recreation.
Enjoying for India, Sarfaraz smashed a 61-ball hundred within the recreation. The best-hand batter launched an outright assault towards the likes of Harshit Rana, Saurabh Kumar and veteran all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja to notch triple figures of simply 63 deliveries.
Sarfaraz’s youthful brother, Musheer, shared the video of the Mumbai batter’s inning on Instagram.
“India Intersquard Match Sarfaraz Khan Scored 100 runs in 63 balls at South Africa,” the caption of the video learn.
Sarfaraz made a powerful case for his maiden Take a look at call-up. A number of media studies have claimed that opening batter Ruturaj Gaikwad will not be part of the two Checks as he received’t be capable to get well from the finger harm on time. The Maharashtra batter damage himself within the second ODI towards South African in Gqeberha which saved him away from the motion within the decider in Paarl.
Although the BCCI is but to make an official announcement, the board might contemplate Sarfaraz as Ruturaj’s substitute within the 2-match collection.
Sarfaraz has been banging on the selectors’ door for fairly a very long time now. Regardless of accumulating 3657 runs in 41 matches and averaging 71.70, he’s but to obtain an India call-up.
Sarfaraz goes unsold in IPL 2024 public sale
As soon as thought-about a prodigy within the cash-rich event, Sarfaraz has failed to draw a purchaser within the IPL 2024 public sale, held in Dubai final week. He had an underwhelming outing final season, scoring simply 53 runs in 4 matches. Listed at a base worth of INR 20 lakh, he couldn’t appeal to any bids through the occasion.
Sarfaraz made his IPL debut for the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in IPL 2015. He has performed 50 video games to date and has amassed 585 runs, together with a half-century.
